Trout Brook Realty Advisors, the no-profit development arm of the West Hartford Housing Authority, plans to retain the front façade, including stained glass, of the existing 1969-vintage Agudas Achim Synagogue at 1244 North Main St., attaching it to a new 20,750-square-foot building on the 1.8-acre property. Tentative plans for the development will go before West Hartford’s Design Review Advisory Committee at its Thursday meeting. Trout Brook “is looking to preserve some of the architectural features of the existing building and really bring back energy to a site that’s been vacant for quite some time,” Gorski said. The Agudas Achim Synagogue ceased operations as a house of worship several years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Rabbi Chagie Rubin, who previously led the congregation. Attendance had been dwindling for some time, he said.
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